Making Strategies That Work The Art Of Alignment
In the last 21 years, I can’t remember an assignment where the alignment of the stakeholders' perspectives wasn’t at stake. Complete alignment on everything is improbable but a shared and meaningful sense of direction is critical. Shooting For The Same Moon The direction of every business relies on aligning the whole operation with the intention. We’ve never worked on a single case where outcomes, visions, missions and goals were not a priority.
Getting Everyone On The Right Path Every organisation is the sum of its individuals. And every individual I’ve ever met has their own unique take on everything. It is the sum of these individuals' contributions that are needed to make the strategy work.
Divided By Design - Aligned By Desire A conundrum for every business. Most organisations are separated and subdivided by function. Each function is a specialism.
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Great leaders realise the importance of nding a smart way to get everyone pulling in the same direction and showing how that’s in the interests of everyone.
Explaining The Challenge Left unchecked, each ‘division’ creates its own strategy. The smart ones will align their sub-strategies with the overall aim and objective of the business. All too often though the overall aim and objective of the business is out of date and unable to embrace individual strategies developed by divisional function. Building The Visual Blueprint The notion of a single-minded plan is simple to explain but a challenge to deliver. It takes humans to align but they’re all at different starting points.
Making The Case Simply Every strategy and the successful plan is made up of a few pretty obvious things: •
Where are we all headed and why?
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What is gonna stop us from achieving it?
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What do we need in place to get us there?
Non-alignment of everyone’s plans cuts to the heart of creating strategies that don’t work.
Collaborative Visualisation We’ve proven that the quickest way to get everybody’s individual perspective into the mix is through the collaborative and visual endeavour. Collaboratively so that everyone gets to share their perspective. This is a powerful way to get everyone involved to understand where everything ts or where the lack of alignment collides with disastrous effects. Visually because it’s by far the quickest way to show where these connections and interdependencies are. Visually collaborating allows a common de nition and shared respect as well as the blueprint of interdependence and critical connection.
Structured Visual Thinking™
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Structured visual thinking empowers and inspires everyone involved. For the rst time, they can see their role in it all. They can achieve their individual and collective goals. They can create meaningful relationships with each other and what really matters.
They can add compound value to the whole through collaborating visually in a structured, logical and co-creative way. Making Strategies That Work
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